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D. H. BLASCOW.

REIN HOLDER.

No. 553,219. Patented Jan. 14, 1896.

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NITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

DAVID I-I. BLASCOV, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO PETER GARRAIIAN AND FRANCIS M. NEALE, OF SAME PLACE.

REIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,219, dated January 14, 1896.

Application tiled May l5, 1895. Serial Noi 549,408; (No model.)

To all whom it nay concern,.-

Be it known that I, DAVID Il. BLASCO W, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rein-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of reinholders wherein the holder is adapted to be clamped to the top of the dashboard and is provided with a rocking cam to clamp on the reins when they are inserted in the bite of the holder, and the main object of the invention is to provide the holder with a gravity detent or latch which will prevent the reins from being drawn out laterally from the holder bythe movements of the horse, and to provide a construction which will permit the driver to remove the reins from the holder with one hand, the latch being lifted through the medium of the reins, as will be described. The holder is capable of being secured to the dashboard at any point along its upper edge, and without marring or perforating the leather of the dashboard.

The novel features ofthe invention will be defined in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a holder embodying the invention. This View represents the right-hand side of the holder mounted on the dashboard, which is represented in vertical section. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the holder-that is, a View of the face next to the driver. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder, showing the side seen in Fig. l, but with the cam and latch lifted in order to permit the reins t0 be removed. Fig. L is a vertical sectional view of the holder. This View shows the holder secured to a dashboard, which differs slightly from that seen in Figs. l and 2.

X represents part of an ordinary dashboard such as maybe found on any carriage. The form of dashboard shown in Fig. has a metal bar above the bar inclosed in the leather. Both forms shown are common.

The rein-holder has amain base-piece, comprising two jaws a and b, between which the dashboard is embraced, the jaw a having set in it one or more clamp-screws c, which pass through the jaw and set on a protecting-piece d, of leather or the like, interposed between the screws and the leather of the dashboard.`

Another similar piece d' is arranged between the jaw b and the other face of the dashboard. The upper part of the base -piece 55 consists of a frame e in somewhat the form of the letter L inverted. In this frame is hung a gravity-cam g, arranged to swing or rock on a rod or bar h, in the upper part of the frame. This cam has a convex or rounded serrated 6\ face g/, which is eccentric to the rod h and is hollowed out at x, Fig. el, and left solid and heavy at so that the cam will hang in the position seen in Figs. l and 4. The construction of the frame c provides an opening y at 6 5 one side, as seen in Fig. 2, whereat the reins Y are inserted under the cam g by a lateral or sidewise movement. The cam is so set in the frame that when the horse pulls on the reins gripped in the holder the strain serves 7o to rotate the cam and tighten its grip on them. The side of the holder at the right in Fig. l

is that toward the horse.

To prevent the horse, by any jerking movement of his head, from slipping the reins out 7 5 laterally from under the cam, a gravity detent or latch is hung from the rod 71 its pendent end just clearing the table j of the basepiece on which the reins rest. This latch is capable of swinging toward the driver- So that is, to the left, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3. On the cam g is a stud or pin k, which, when the reins are drawn back in a manner to swing or rock the cam, catches the latch and swings it back and up, as illustrated in Fig. 8 5 3, so as to permit the reins to be moved or drawn out under the latch by a quick lateral movement, as indicated in Fig. 3. Vhen the reins are removed the latch and cam return by gravity to their normal positions. 9o

The latch is made bulbous at its lower end and beveled at i', Fig. 2, on its outer face, so as to facilitate the passing of the reins under it and swinging it back.

In order to avoid rattling and clanking of 9 5 the metal parts when shaken by the movements of the carriage, I provide the cam f/ with a cushion m, of rubber or like soft ma terial, to contact with the top of the frame e., and furnish the stud 7.: with a similar cushion n, Fig. l, to contact with the latch t'. Bosses on the latch c' and cam g prevent them from IOO clicking together or against the frame of the l holder.

In some cases the dashboard of a vehicle may not be adapted to receive the elarnp of the holder, in which the holder may be clamped to any other convenient part of the carriage. Indeed the clamp maybe shaped to fit any part of the vehicle.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. In a rein-holder, the combination with a frame provided With a clamp for clamping it 011 the vehicle, of a serrated gravity earn;v g,` suspended in the upper part of the frame, and a gravity latch z', suspended inthe frame across the opening for the insertion of the reins .under the cani, the cam-g `having a stud y lo, for displacing fthe latch, substantially as set forth.

2. In a rein-holder, the combination With 'the frame e, of the cam g, suspended therein 

